2009
November 2009
Saturday 7 November 2009
Sat 7 Nov, 8 pm. Saturday, November 7th - Performance Hosted by Isaiah Sheffer, this acclaimed series features some of the finest artists of the American theater reading fiction that highlights immigrant writers. Reservations suggested. 8 PM Cost: $15. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 15. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 8 November 2009
Sun 8 Nov, 2 pm. Sunday, November 8th - Film Italian director Emanuele Crialese’s 2006 film tells the story of the turn-of-the-century voyage of a poor family from rural Sicily through the “golden door” of Ellis Island and into America. 2 PM Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sun 8 Nov, 8 pm. Sunday, November 8th - Film Widowed professor Walter Vale (Richard Jenkins, in an Oscar-nominated role) finds himself drawn to a different rhythm when he discovers an immigrant couple squatting in his Manhattan apartment and becomes wrapped up in their lives. (103 min.) 8 PM Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Thursday 12 November 2009
Thu 12 Nov, 7 pm. Thursday, November 12th - Reading Community Book Group Discussion led by Lisa Lieberman 7 PM Cost: Free. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. free. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 15 November 2009
Sun 15 Nov, 2 pm. Sunday, November 15th - Concert An afternoon dedicated to two great composers on the anniversaries of their death and birth – Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) and Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847.). 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 22 November 2009
Sun 22 Nov, 2 pm. Sunday, November 22nd - Film Asher and Shyfra Scharf retrace the path they traveled in 1940 when Stalin ordered the deportation of 200,000 Polish Jews from Eastern Poland to forced labor settlements in the Soviet interior. (79 min.) 2 PM Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]
Sunday 29 November 2009
Sun 29 Nov, 2 pm. Sunday, November 29th - Film Anthropologist Ruth Behar returns to her native Cuba to profile the island’s remaining Sephardic Jews and chronicle her family’s journey to the U.S. (82 min.; Spanish/English, subtitles) 2 PM Cost: $6. 1021 West Street, Amherst, 01002. Laura Sheppard-Brick, 413-256-4900. 6. National Yiddish Book Center - [email][events]